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FISHERIES REGULATIONS 1992
62Labelling of fish
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62 Labelling of fish
(1) The holder of a licence must ensure that a label or tag is placed on
a fish processed for sale under the licence, or, where processed
fish or aquatic life is packaged for sale under the licence, placed on
or inside that package, containing particulars, clearly printed in
letters of uniform size, including:
(a) the number of the person's licence; and
(b) the accepted common name of the contents; and
(c) in the case of fish, other than fish processed to become a
trunk, a description of the type of fish and the method used to
process and preserve it.
(2) Where a fish has been processed for sale to become a trunk and
the trunk is not in a package, a tag must be attached to that trunk
displaying the number of the licence under which the fish was
processed and a description by the accepted common name of the
type of the fish.
(3) Subregulations (1) and (2) do not apply to the sale of fish or aquatic
life as a prepared meal.
(4) A Bait Net Fishery licensee must label all fish or aquatic life in his or
her possession, other than fish or aquatic life to be used by the
licensee as bait for the purposes of amateur fishing by the licensee,
with the words "not for human consumption".
(5) A licensee must not affix a label or tape over another label or tape.
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